It's a very turbulent world. Our eternal hope is in Jesus Christ our Messiah, Lord and savior! Focus on him. Shut off your smartphone, TV and media buzz. Pray and read the Bible daily.
God is rich in mercy, seek his face. Rest in the grace and forgiveness in Jesus Christ But don't justify your sin. Soon we will be together with the Lord.

Text and photo: Carl Grinde Date: August 7 2018
Updated August 8 2018

It is very easy that we lose courage and become scared in these last days on Earth that we live in. Therefore, I have made this page as an encouragement to focus on the positive and beautiful things in our existence and on Jesus Christ. Take a walk outside and leave the cellphone at home! Take a prayer walk and talk to God and thank Him for the beauty He has created. Let your focus in life be Jesus Christ and not the negative news from media.
My life is not only easy. I don't feel good every day. I can have days when I feel empty and lonely. But somehow I now understand that God is always there, regardless of how I feel. I'm getting closer and closer to that point. And that feels good.

God is a wonderful God! Look at the beauty He has created
Be focused on God, on His ways. Seek God's face. Pray to Him. We who are ready will soon be brought up to paradise.

Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
And hope does not put us to shame; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Romans 5:1-11

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 1:18

For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, our righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
1 Corinthians 1:26-30

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
1 John 3:1-3

Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you too will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that he made to us — eternal life.
1 John 2:24-25

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
Luke 14:27

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after is not worthy of me. (Swedish bible version:)

Images of tranquillity, calm and peace
Here are images of my daily life, images of tranquillity, calm and peace. I hope this page can inspire others to find inner peace and salvation through Jesus Christ. Do as I do, turn off your TV, smartphone, internet and entertainment for a while. Shut it all off. Read the Bible and pray instead. Watch only christian preaching or such on youtube. Don't watch worldly movies. Don't listen to worldly music. Go to church service on Sundays.
The things we believe in is a real reality. Paradise is real! Understand this! We are going there soon.
I have had a big struggle in my life, but God has helped me overcome prolonged depression. Jesus Christ, son of God has won an eternal victory for me, for us all who believe in Him.
Jesus has changed my life and cleansed me from sin. Of course I'm not 100% free from sin. But my willful sinning is gone. Indirectly God has revealed himself to me, in my daily life. It feels so great.
He touches me with a nice soothing feeling now and then. It feels like a refreshing spark of soothing energy. It's a short pulse that comes in my body, very short, perhaps 0,5 to 1 seconds long. But it feels great.
It often comes when I'm about to sleep, sometimes in the morning. I also had a dream about the wedding feast in paradise this night (2018-07-28).
We are saved through faith in Jesus Christ, not through our deeds. Praised be Jesus Christ our savior!

My kitchen in spring/summer of 2018, a cup of tea, the Bible - God's word.

My kitchen in summer of 2018. On the stove: soaking Lentils, Beans or Barley. Table: a glass of water, the Bible - God's word.
A smartphone (My friend gave it to me.) I don't use it much, mostly for phone calls or short text messages.
I don't use it for pleasure much, I don't watch videos or listen to music with it very often.
God has warned me that the smartphone easily becomes and Idol, something that I prefer more than Him.

My kitchen in the summer of 2018, the Bible - God's word and some printed cards with Bible words.

Hammerdal's beach.

Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
1 Thessalonians 4:17